Over the last 90 days, our conceptual papers "Outsourcing Emissions: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as Ecological Modernisation" and "Sustaining Waste – Sociological Perspectives on Recycling a Hybrid Object" are among the five most read articles in an environmental management book (published by Springer). As it seems: our papers have been well placed in that outlet.
Earlier this year we reported that our group is part of the book "Implementing Environmental and Resource Management"1.
Checking several times over the last couple of months: the articles by Anup Sam Ninan2 and me3 have been several times among the five most downloaded papers over the last 90 days.
In his paper, Anup Sam Ninan engages in a discussion of how we can think through the climate change regime in terms of the ecological modernisation paradigm. He identifies the discursive limits of the regime and warns that an operationalisation of measures against climate change like the Clean Development Mechanims (CDM) may in effect increase unsustainability.
I provide a strategy to interrogate an "innocent" recycling network in terms of how it renders unsustainable practices even more stable, rather than fighting them. My paper points to the significant role of artefacts which are part of recycling assemblages: drawing on actor-network theory (ANT) I show how these are neither purely material nor purely social - but rather constituting each other.
Read more on the volume here.
- 1. Implementing Environmental and Resource Management In Implementing Environmental and Resource Management, Edited by M. Schmidt, V. Onyango and D. Palekhov. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
- 2. "Outsourcing Emissions: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as Ecological Modernisation." In Implementing Environmental and Resource Management, edited by M. Schmidt, V. Onyango and D. Palekhov. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
- 3. "Sustaining Waste - Sociological Perspectives on Recycling a Hybrid Object." In Implementing Environmental and Resource Management, edited by M. Schmidt, V. Onyango and D. Palekhov, 283-306. Springer, 2011.